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Summary: "Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Caravel 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA BRAHull, Anne
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HULL HULSchulz, Kathryn
Summary: "Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn Schulz met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with the story of losing Kathryn's father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the way life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. Schulz writes with painful clarity about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULZ, KATHRYN SCHDoyle, Glennon
Summary: "There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 DOYCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, GLENNON DOYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DoyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DOYLE DOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio DoyleKorn, Gabrielle
Summary: "From the director of fashion and culture at Refinery29 comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot-button topics for modern women, including the uptick in internet feminism versus ongoing impossible beauty standards in media, the battle against anorexia, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORN, GABRIELLE KORSantos, Sophie
Summary: "From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own. The only child of a perpetually transferring Filipino-Spanish US Army officer and a spitfire nurse, Sophie Santos spent her early years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANTOS, SOPHIE SANKatz, Jonathan
Summary: "Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian feminist Eve Adams, and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912, took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021